Cheese Making at Kindergarten

On Friday a small group of us were lucky enough to be able to visit Talbot Forest Cheese - as part of Nohonga Tahitanga. What an exciting time we had at the cheese factory learning about how cheese was made - to make 1kg of cheese we need 10litres of milk! A lot of mathematical terms were explored as we looked at and touched different types of cheese - weight - predicting - shape - size - colour - comparisons - number. We were even lucky to be able to taste Havarti and Rakapuka Red and compare the flavours and testures of each cheese - YUM YUM! This morning Tash and Sandy came in with their hands full, ready to help us make some cheese. Tash has been out to the vat early this morning in the freezing cold to get us 6 litres of the freshest milk! We enjoyed folowing the recipe and learning about the different chemicals that were needed to be measured into the milk to help it form into mozerella cheese!! Owwwww it was so exciting when the timer went off and we were able to see how fast the milk had thickened up and turned into a big clump of cheese. Thank you for your time - Tash and Sandy :) Sorry we are unable to upload photos this afternoon - will try again tomorrow for you!